Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play in children's emerging grammatical competence. The contributors to this book investigate:
* children's earliest words for actions and events and the cognitive structures that might underlie them,
* the possibility that the basic principles of word learning which apply in the case of nouns might also apply in the case of verbs, and
the role of linguistic context, especially argument structure, in the acquisition of verbs.
A central theme in many of the chapters is the comparison of the processes of noun and verb learning. Several contributors make provocative suggestions for constructing theories of lexical development that encompass the full range of lexical items that children learn and use.
Introduction: Verbs Are Words Too 1(20) William E. Merriman Michael Tomasello Part I Early Words for Action Conceptual Development and the Childs Early Words for Events, Objects, and Persons 21(42) Patricia Smiley Janellen Huttenlocher Names, Relational Words, and Cognitive Development in English and Korean Speakers: Nouns Are Not Always Learned Before Verbs 63(18) Alison Gopnik Soonja Choi Differences in the Acquisition of Early Verbs: Evidence from Diary Data from Sisters 81(34) Susan R. Braunwald Part II Basic Principles of Verb Learning Pragmatic Contexts for Early Verb Learning 115(32) Michael Tomasello Childrens Disposition to Map New Words Onto New Referents 147(38) William E. Merriman John Marazita Lorna Jarvis Lexical Principles Can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs 185(38) Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Carolyn B. Mervis William B. Frawley Maria Parillo The Dual Category Problem in the Acquisition of Action Words 223(28) Katherine Nelson Processes Involved in the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings 251(26) Douglas A. Behrend Part III The Role of Argument Structure Verbs of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Information in the Structure of Maternal Speech 277(22) Anne Lederer Henry Gleitman Lila Gleitman Syntactic Bootstrapping from Start to Finish with Special Reference to Down Syndrome 299(32) Letitia G. Naigles Anne Fowler Atessa Helm Missing Arguments and the Acquisition of Predicate Meanings 331(22) Matthew Rispoli Verb Argument Structure and the Problem of Avoiding an Overgeneral Grammar 353(24) Martin D. S. Braine Patricia J. Brooks Hedgehogs, Foxes and the Acquisition of Verb Meaning 377(28) Michael Maratsos Gedeon Deak Author Index 405(8) Subject Index 413
Michael Tomasello, William E. Merriman
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